Just when it looked like the Blue Jays were cooling off and regressing back to the pack, they went to Colorado.

The Rockies are the worst team in baseball, and the Jays made them look even worse than their 30-84 record indicates.

The Jays pummeled them in record-setting ways. The 45 runs scored were the most the Jays have ever scored in a three-game series. Toronto’s 63 hits were the most by a single team in a three-game series since 1900. Of the 63 hits, 13 were home runs, 13 were doubles and one was a triple. The remaining 36 hits were singles.

The offence was relentless. Bo Bichette and Daulton Varsho each drove in 10 runs. The are the first teammates to drive in 10 runs each in a three-game series since 1900.

Everyone got fat on Rockies pitching. The Jays offensive confidence must be at an all-time high. Coors Field has a way of doing that anyway, and when coupled with an ultra-poor pitching staff you get what happened over the past three games.

There is an old saying in baseball that you are only as good as your next day’s starting pitcher. But when a team scores 45 runs on 63 hits, the offence is flying high. Hitters are confident and believe that they will do damage when they get their pitch. They can’t wait to grab a bat and get in the batter’s box again.

The Jays crushed Colorado’s starters and relievers. They hit high-velocity fastballs, breaking balls and changeups. They hit lefties and righties.

There can be a negative pendulum effect when leaving Coors Field. Hitters can hit the ball exactly the same way in another stadium and it doesn’t travel as far. Hitters have to guard against the feeling that they need to do more to get the Coors Field carry on well-struck baseballs. The way to counteract that notion is to trust the process, barrel up the baseball and surrender to the result. Good things will keep happening if hitters can do that.

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